Heaven after Death in Islam

By Khandaker Nazneen Sultana

Heaven is a place, where  we will have, full of felicity, happiness, achievement, salvation, the attainment or fulfillment of desires, We have to win Allah’s good pleasure and by that, we could reach the stage at which Allah’s good pleasure is all in all to us. Heaven is for righteous deeds. Obedience of Allah and His Messenger is a sure way to Paradise. 

Hell after Death in Islam

By Khandaker Nazneen Sultana

An-Nu`man ibn Bashir (RA) narrated that he heard the Prophet (SAW) said: "The least torture in the Hell on the Day of Judgment is that of a man whose foot sole is laid on a live coal which causes his brain to boil just like a boiler."-- [Bukhari and Muslim] 

Prophet Hazrat  Muhammad (SAW) told: "He does not think that any other person is tortured more severely than him although he is in the least torture."--[Muslim]

The Islamic or Hijrah calendar

BY Khandaker Nazneen Sultana

The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar is also called the Hijrah calendar

The Islamic calendar is the official calendar in many Muslim countries, especially Saudi Arabia. Other Muslim countries use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes and only turn to the Islamic calendar for religious purposes.

 Muslims do not traditionally "celebrate" the beginning of a new year, but we do acknowledge the passing of time, and take time to reflect on our own mortality.

Zakat (regular charity) is a beautiful loan to Allah

By Khandaker Nazneen Sultana

The fifth ritualistic duty that every believer owes to Allah is zakat, which means alms giving or charity. The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said, "Every good, done for the rich or the poor, is charity." It is Muslims duty to assess and pay their Zakat during the month of Ramadan.

In the Qur'an, zakat is joined with prayer (salat), and this joining has led to a tradition in Islam that the two are equivalent in importance. The Quranic revelation demand that each person give up a certain amount of material wealth to support the poor, the indigent, the sick, and the suffering. This is the zakat.

Allah has permitted trade and has forbidden usury

By Khandaker Nazneen Sultana

The literal meaning of interest is usury or Al-RIBA .In the Arabic language it means increase or excess. According to Islamic terminology any excess on the capital is Riba or interest.

Hazrat Shah Waliullah Dehlvi a great scholar and saint has given a very concise and precise definition of interest. He said: “Riba‘ is a loan with the condition that the borrower will return to the lender, more than and better than the quantity borrowed”.

Value of Charity

 By A.T.M. NURUN NABI

Charity may be defined as helping people who are poor or in need. It may also be defined as sympathy and kindness towards other people. Giving of money, food and drink to the poor and the needy, and nursing of the sick are also charity. Even giving good advice to fellow people is also an act of charity.